Hey guys and welcome to episode 135 of the OcD Stories

dot com podcast. Now this is a story-based episode and in this

episode I interviewed Anna Foster. Now Anna is a BBC Newcastle breakfast radio host and I got Anna on because I've been

following her stuff on social media for a while and I've just liked the vibe

she's been putting out so I wanted to get her on to go more in depth into her story and

she didn't disappoint this episode I really enjoyed it there's lots of good information in here

and her story was compelling and touching so it's good to

hear that. But some of the things that we discuss beyond obviously the normal questions

you know I would have asked is why sort of the OCD theme isn't important because it just morphs the

OCD that needs to be tackled. We talk about maternal OCD and how she silenced

herself and her thoughts because of fear that her kids may be taken away so we discuss that.

She makes a good point of no one would have known she was suffering up to a couple years ago,

even though it's gone on pretty much her whole life and how she just kept it secret.

We talk about there's nothing wrong with triggers, because triggers, that's how you get better when you have to kind of face it.

She gave some good sort of

motivational wisdom of just keep putting one foot in front the other in

therapy and recovery. How she found a sense of freedom from her ERP, her therapy.

Talk about general things like getting enough sleep,

enough rest, keeping stress low.

She shares her biggest epiphany in recovery

and that questions don't have to be answered. Now these

are OCD questions they don't have to be answered and we can live with that

...